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River Flood Warning 27, NWS Memphis, TN

January 12, 2020Madison County, Tennessee

NWS Memphis, TN issued this river flood warning at Jan 12, 2020, 5:29 PM CST for Madison County, Tennessee. It took effect at Jan 12, 2020, 6:00 PM CST. It was in force for 25 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 12, 2020, 5:29 PM CST (23:29 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 12, 2020, 6:00 PM CST
Expired
Jan 13, 2020, 7:04 PM CST
In force
25 hr
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
Minor

County Madison County, TN

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The river

Written for the forecast point South Fork Forked Deer River at Jackson (JKNT1).

Action stage
32 ft
Minor stage
34 ft
Moderate stage
37.5 ft
Major stage
39 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this river flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Memphis, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Jan 11, 5:54 PM CST, 23 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 11, 5:54 PM CST, 23 hours 35 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 12, 12:18 AM CSTRiver Flood WarningMEGCalhoun10 hr
Jan 12, 8:35 AM CSTRiver Flood AdvisoryMEGMississippi, Poinsett7 hr
Jan 12, 8:57 AM CSTRiver Flood WarningMEGLee, St. Francis3 days

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Tennessee, 2020Every river flood warning in 2020

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.